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Wildfires in Pontes Gestal

Pontes Gestal, Brazil, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 7,439 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 12 Very low 31° · 47 % · 36 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Very low 33° · 43 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Low 34° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Moderate 35° · 43 % · 50 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 62 % · 35 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Very low 30° · 71 % · 38 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Very low 30° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Very low 31° · 74 % · 30 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Pontes Gestal: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

7,439
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
3
fires
219
km²

How many times has Pontes Gestal burned?

Pontes Gestal has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2024. The most recent: Pontes Gestal fire, August 2024, with 1,551 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,439 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,822 hectares, 31 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
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  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
7,439
cumulative ha
6,822
distinct ha

Fires larger than 3,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Brazil

Fires that entered Pontes Gestal

  1. 1,551 ha Pontes Gestal fire, August 2024 where it started 7.1% of the municipality · 6,494 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 4,420 ha Riolândia fire, August 2024 20% of the municipality · 6,068 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,469 ha Pontes Gestal fire, September 2020 where it started 6.7% of the municipality · 4,894 ha in total · 6 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), OCHA ROLAC (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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